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• xxx Dunning († 1979)
• Aad Kalkman, velsen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Thom Snels, Waspik
• Ralph Christian Molenaar, Oosterhout

• Bernhard Heinrich Temminghoff (86), Enschede
• Anthonius Franciscus Gijselhart (70), Delft
• Cornelis A. Bakx (54), Rotterdam
• Christoffel Johannes Lambertus Stinges (80)
• Antonius Bernardus van Dongen (67), Gilze en Rijen
• Albertus Adrianus Bor (70), Huizen, Noord-Holland, Nederland-Netherlands
• Aaltje Bertha Pot (49), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Isaäcs (73), Sleeuwijk
• Alice Faye Mack (53)
• Ben Bankras (17), Obdam

• 1977 » Angela Goethals, American actress
• 1977 » Leo Franco, Argentinian footballer
• 1977 » Matt Czuchry, American actor
• 1978 » Hristos Banikas, Greek chess player
• 1978 » Nils Schumann, German runner
• 1978 » Pavla Hamáčková-Rybová, Czech pole vaulter
• 1979 » Andrew Scheer, Canadian politician, 28th Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada
• 1979 » Jayson Werth, American baseball player
• 1980 » Austin Kearns, American baseball player
• 1980 » Kassim Osgood, American football player

• 1964 » Rudy Lewis, American singer (b. 1936)
• 1971 » Waldo Williams, Welsh poet and academic (b. 1904)
• 1973 » Jarno Saarinen, Finnish motorcycle racer (b. 1945)
• 1973 » Renzo Pasolini, Italian motorcycle racer (b. 1938)
• 1975 » Barbara Hepworth, English sculptor and lithographer (b. 1903)
• 1976 » Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz, Uruguayan politician (b. 1934)
• 1976 » Syd Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1911)
• 1976 » Zelmar Michelini, Uruguayan journalist and politician (b. 1924)
• 1989 » Gilda Radner, American actress and comedian (b. 1946)
• 1989 » John Hicks, English economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 14.0 million citizens.
• February 26 » The Superliner railcar enters revenue service with Amtrak.
• June 3 » A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least 3,000,000 barrels (480,000m) of oil to be spilled into the waters, the second-worst accidental oil spill ever recorded.
• August 27 » The Troubles: Eighteen British soldiers are killed in an ambush by the Provisional Irish Republican Army near Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland, in the deadliest attack on British forces during Operation Banner. An IRA bomb also kills British royal family member Lord Mountbatten and three others on his boat at Mullaghmore, Republic of Ireland.
• October 6 » Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House.
• December 3 » In Cincinnati, 11 fans are suffocated in a crush for seats on the concourse outside Riverfront Coliseum before a Who concert.
• December 10 » Kaohsiung Incident: Taiwanese pro-democracy demonstrations are suppressed by the KMT dictatorship, and organizers are arrested.

The temperature on May 20, 1979 was between 8.9 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.